E-mail has now developed into a mainstream form of communication and it’s hard to imagine how we managed without it. Recruiters will normally ask for you to e-mail a CV rather than fax as e-mail often provides superior speed and quality of transmission.

If you don’t already have an account, you will find it useful to set up an e-mail account whilst you are looking for a new job as it offers you the opportunity to send and receive messages from recruiters, network contacts, companies and other people you will be dealing with.

The best thing with web based e-mail is that you can access it from anywhere, be it an Internet cafe or your own PC.

There are a number of free e-mail services available via the internet. They are free because they are supported by advertising. This type of e-mail account is independent from that provided by an Internet Service Provider (ISP) which is often only accessible via a PC with the ISP’s software installed. Continue Reading

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The Internet is a wonderful place but can also be confusing to those people who have not really used it before.

I’ll write this article from the perspective of an internet noob so if your already pretty confident using the World Wide Web (yup, thats where the WWW part comes from) then you can move on to one of the other articles within our site.

If you know the name of the web site in question (e.g. www.work-jobs-employment.com) then you can type this into your browser window to be taken there. If you don’t know the name of the web site then you need to take advantage of a clever online device called a search engine.

Search engines trawl the web like fishing boats collecting information on the content of the web sites that they come across. This information is then indexed so that when you search for a specific topic or topics, the search engine will look at its index to see if the words you types match words listed in its index. Continue Reading

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